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Coal Wars: Unions, Strikes, and Violence in Depression-Era Central Washington
Summer 2015
There was a time, it’s been recalled, when each home in Roslyn had
three pictures on its wall: of Jesus, FDR, and John L. Lewis, the
powerful head of the United Mine Workers of America, or UMW. But labor
conflicts in the coal-mining town duri...
Categories: Washington state history
Tags: Labor and unions, Coal mining, Roslyn